The 8 years I spent developing Silent Hill 1, 2 & 3 at Konami, I gave up on getting a girlfriend. Never even went on a single date w/ a lady. I sacrificed my days off & slept on cardboards spread out on the floor, but I never in my wildest dreams imagined I’d endup like this on X
Stella Maris is very underrated, in his final days, McCarthy seems to be reckoning with his obsession with science and a faint, almost reluctant religiosity as death approaches. The passage where Alicia speaks of the divine mystery of the violin’s creation is especially beautiful
o beloved, from whom i have gained nothing,
despite all i have suffered in pursuit of you.
would that i knew: do you remember me
in your solitude, as i remember you?
— al-buḥturī (d. 897)